Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.

What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God.